Platform One
Your business can run without you.
Right now it can't, and you already know that. What you don't know is which one thing is stopping it. We find that, fix it with you, then prove it moved.
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Find it. Fix it.
Follow through.
One thing is holding the rest in place. We find which one, fix it with you, then measure again and show you it moved.
The constraint moves as you grow.
Most owners are still solving the last stage's problem. Find your revenue band and read across.
Tap your revenue band
These are the odds, not your answer. Your business is capped by one of these, and the band tells you which is most likely. It does not tell you which is yours. That is what the audit is for.
It's called Baseline.
A full audit of your whole company.
The deepest look at your business you have ever had.
Three sectors over 0.6. All three resolve to the same desk.
We measure where your company actually is before anyone changes anything.
Everyone answers separately. No names on the answers. What comes back is the distance between what you believe and what your people know.
That distance is the constraint, and it is costing you money today.
Not the version that protects them. No name ever goes on an answer, you sign that before we send a single link, and we will not break it if you ask later. That is the only reason what comes back is real instead of diplomatic.
Most owners are working the loudest problem, not the one capping them. You answer first and alone, your team answers separately, and the gap between those two accounts tells you which is which. One thing to fix, and the evidence for why it is that one.
Every score opens onto the answers underneath it. Challenge any figure in the room and we open what produced it on the spot. Nothing you have to take on faith, and nothing you cannot defend to your own leadership team.
Three steps, every time.
Find it. Fix it. Follow through.
Most firms do the first one and call it a job. Almost nobody can do the third at all. Step one takes as long as your company is complicated, and we will tell you that number before we start.
We audit the business, then sit down with you
You answer first and alone. Then your partners, then your team, with nobody seeing anyone else's answers.
Plenty of owners stop here, take the finding and fix it themselves. That is a fine place to stop.
We come in and run the fix with you
A small senior team works your business alongside your people until the constraint is gone.
Not advice. Nobody hands you a plan and leaves.
We measure again and show you it moved
Almost nobody else can do this, for a boring reason: they never measured you before they started. We did, in step one.
The number either moved or it did not.
What it covers
Three steps outside.
Five sectors inside.
A racing lap is timed in sectors, because that is the only way to see which part cost you the race. We score a business the same way. Most owners are sound in four and losing in one, and almost nobody is losing where they expect.
- S1FinanceWhere the money actually goes, and what it costs to find out late.
- S2MarketingWhether new business arrives predictably or by luck, and whether the agencies and lead-gen firms you pay for are actually producing.
- S3PeopleWho the work really depends on, and what stops without them.
- S4OperationsHow the work moves, against how it is supposed to.
- S5PerformanceWhether any of it is measurably better than last quarter.
Somebody who has built and sold companies, not just advised them.
structured, advised
and exited
more than once
On the record
With Kevin O’Leary, Robert Herjavec and Daymond John.
Founded, scaled and exited companies across finance, real estate, technology and education. Roll-ups, re-caps, and a few deals walked away from that looked good on paper and would have killed me.
Sat across from family offices, funds and institutional investors in the US and the Middle East. Raised, structured or advised on over a billion dollars.
The pattern that stuck was never about the money. It was watching what actually stops good companies from growing, and how rarely it is the thing the founder is focused on.
- FounderAlign Equity Group · Lot 29 Capital · The Wealth Circle · The Come Up
- AuthorCapital Is the GameA number one Amazon new release
- BoardChairman's Society · Make-A-Wish Southern Florida
- LicensedSeries 65 and 63Relevant to the regulated work, and not the reason anyone hires us.
The method existed
before the product.
Both books were written before Platform One took a single client. The audit is what happens when you stop writing the pattern down and start measuring it.
Start here
You already suspect
something. Find out.
Send one paragraph on what you think is holding the business up. You get a reply from Nick with a straight answer on whether the audit would settle it, what it would cost for a company your size, and what we would expect to find. If an audit is the wrong instrument, we say so.
We take a handful of engagements at a time, because step three puts our own people inside your business. Every enquiry is read by Nick. See a worked example
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